BACON BLOODY BACON: Matt Bacon’s TikTok For Bands and Labels: A Primer


TikTok is a really interesting and exciting platform. Unfortunately, most bands and labels have absolutely no clue how to use it. With this short primer, I hope to demystify the platform for those of us who are DIY lifers.  

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BACON BLOODY BACON: Matt Bacon on How to Pitch Music Festivals


As the year of COVID-19 seems to come to a close and we begin to have hope for a better future bands are once more starting to ask me how to pitch to festivals. I realized that I haven’t written an article on this in a good long while, and would love to help show you guys the light.

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BACON BLOODY BACON: Matt Bacon on Lessons from Going Viral on TikTok


So I went viral on TikTok over the weekend. I know you’re probably tired of me writing about TikTok, but going up 900 followers over the course of a weekend ain’t nothing to sneeze at. So I wanted to break down for you some of how I did that and what I learned in the process. 

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